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Sunday, 12 June 2016

Chad Johnson (American football player, social media personality)

* Chad Johnson, formerly Chad Ochocinco, is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and played for the Bengals for ten seasons. In 2011, Johnson was traded to the New England Patriots with whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI. In 2012, Johnson played for the Miami Dolphins during preseason but was released following his arrest for domestic violence. He played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2014 to 2015.

On 25 October 2006, in honour of Hispanic Heritage Month, Johnson, whose jersey number was "85", announced that he would prefer to be called "Ocho Cinco," which is "eight five" in Spanish ("Eighty-five" would be "ochenta y cinco").

In April 2011, CNBC listed the then-Ochocinco as No. 1 on its list of "Most Influential Athletes In Social Media." He currently has 3.6 million followers on Twitter. Johnson is a six-time NFL Pro Bowler, was named to four All-Pro teams, and was voted as the number one wide receiver on the Bengals 40th Anniversary team.

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BIRTH DATA: Chad Javon Johnson, 9 January 1976, 05:56 (5:56 AM) EST (+5), Miami, Florida, USA (25n46, 80w11). ASC: 29 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "In 1976 when I was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital at 5:56 am," "I appreciate all the birthday wishes, it feels good to be 40" (posted on 9 January 2016). NB: Jackson Memorial Hospital is located in Miami, Florida. Wikipedia incorrectly has 1978.

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Bill Ayers (American political activist)

* Bill Ayers is an elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his current work in education reform, curriculum and instruction. In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group with the intent to overthrow imperialism, that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the US Capitol Building, and the Pentagon) during the 1960s and 1970s in response to US involvement in the Vietnam War.

He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US Presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground. They have two sons, Zayd and Malik and they also raised Chesa Boudin.

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BIRTH DATA: William Charles Ayers, 26 December 1944, 00:10 (12:10 AM) CWT (+5), Oak Park, Illinois, USA (41n53, 87w47). ASC: About 25 Virgo. RR: B (Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him relating the story of his birth in Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist by William Ayers (Beacon Press, 2009), p. 9: "while [my parents] drove off to Oak Park Hospital . . . I missed [being born on] Christmas by minutes, but that never diminished the intensity of this foundational myth — I was the best Christmas present ever, my life achieved against great danger and risk."

Friday, 25 March 2016

Calvin Harris (Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, record producer, recording artist, remixer)

* Calvin Harris topped Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid DJs for three consecutive years from 2013 to 2015.

His 2009 album, Ready for the Weekend debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and its lead single, "I'm Not Alone", became his first number one on the UK Singles Chart. Harris rose to international prominence in 2012 with the release of his third studio album, 18 Months. Topping the UK charts, the album became his first to chart on the Billboard 200 in the US, reaching number 19.

His collaboration with Rihanna led to two singles, "Where Have You Been" and "We Found Love". The latter became an international success, giving Harris his first US number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Harris holds the record for the most top 10 songs from one studio album on the UK Singles Chart with nine top 10 entries, surpassing Michael Jackson. In October 2014, he became the first artist to place three songs simultaneously on the top 10 of Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart. He also became the first British solo artist to reach more than one billion streams on Spotify.

Harris dated British singer Rita Ora from May 2013 to June 2014. In March 2015, Harris started dating American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

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BIRTH DATA: Adam Richard Wiles, 17 January 1984, 17:22 (5:22 PM) GMT (+0), Dumfries, Scotland (55n04, 3w37). ASC: 8 Leo. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Caroline Gerard, who quoted birth certificate in an email on 18 March 2016.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Eddie Redmayne (English actor, model and singer)

* Eddie Redmayne started his professional career in both theatre and television roles in the early 2000s and then made his film debut, Like Minds, in 2006.

Redmayne received acclaim for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2015, he received further critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, in The Danish Girl. For his performance, he received nominations for his second Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.

He has continued to perform in theatre, most notably in the play Red (2010), on Broadway, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.

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BIRTH DATA: Edward John David Redmayne, 6 January 1982, "night," GMT (+0), Westminster, London, England (51n30, 0w09). ASC: ???. RR: C (rectified from approx. time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview with Gabrielle Donnelly: "on the night I was born, my parents were supposed to go to see Cats and my mum couldn’t go because I came along, so they always think my interest in theatre came from that" (Daily Mail, 12 December 2015, online here). Date from birth notice, "REDMAYNE.--On 6th January, to Patricia and Richard--a son (Edward)." ("Births," Times [London], 9 January 1982, p. 22). Place from England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. A speculative time of 8 p.m. marks the middle of the "night" period between sunset (4pm) and midnight.

Friday, 19 February 2016

Salman Khan (Indian film actor, producer and television personality)

* Salman Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide, and is cited in the media as one of the most popular and commercially successful actors of Hindi cinema. He was ranked 7th in Forbes's first global list of highest-paid actors in the world with USD 33.5 million, earning more than Hollywood actors like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Khan established himself in Bollywood in the 1990s with roles in several top-grossing productions. After a brief period of decline in the 2000s, he achieved greater stardom in the 2010s by playing the lead role in several successful action films, including Dabangg (2010), Bodyguard (2011), Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Kick (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). He has starred in the highest-grossing Bollywood films of nine separate years which is a Bollywood record. For his contributions to film, the Government of India honoured him with the 2008 – Rajiv Gandhi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment.

In addition to his acting career, Khan is a stage performer and an active humanitarian through his charity organisation Being Human with his Brother Sooban Ahmad Khan. Khan's off-screen life is marred by controversy and legal troubles. His tumultuous relationship with Aishwarya Rai, hunting of endangered species, and a negligent driving case in which he ran over five people with his car, killing one, have been extensively covered by the Indian media. For the last of these, Khan was sentenced to a five-year imprisonment in 2015. Later on Salman was acquitted of all charges in the hit-and-run case by the Bombay High Court.

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BIRTH DATA: Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan, 27 December 1965, 10:45 (10:45 AM) IST (-5:30), Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India (22n43, 75e50). ASC: 3 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Being Salman by Jasim Khan (Penguin UK, 2015): "Salman Khan was born at 10.45 a.m. on 27 December 1965 in Kalyanmal Nursing Home in Indore. The superintendent of the nursing home, Dr Neelesh Dalal, shows the register marking the birh of Salman."

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Heiner Müller, 1929–1995 ([East] German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director)

* Heiner Müller has been described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, and he is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

Müller died in Berlin of throat cancer on 30 December 1995, aged 66, acknowledged as one of the greatest German authors.

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BIRTH DATA: Reimund Heiner Müller, 9 January 1929, circa 21:30 (9:30 PM) CET (-1), Eppendorf, Saxony, Germany (50n48, 13e14). ASC: 10-20 Virgo. RR: B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from his autobiography, "Werke: Eine Autobiographie" by Heiner Müller (Suhrkamp, 2005), p. 9: "Ich war eine schwere Geburt. Sie hat lange gedauert, von früh bis neun Uhr abends. 9. Januar 1929." Translation: I had a difficult birth. It took a long time, from morning till nine at night on 9 January 1929.

However, perhaps he was taking poetic licence (all those nines) because 10pm is given in several biographies including "Heiner Müller" by Jan-Christoph Hauschild (Rowohlt, 2000), p. 15: "Am 9. Januar 1929 abends gegen zehn Uhr wird ihr erstes Kind geboren, Reimund Heiner Müller." Translation: Their first child, Reimund Heiner Müller, was born on 9 January 1929 at ten o'clock in the evening.

Therefore 9:30pm is used.

Monday, 18 January 2016

Matthew Pavlich (Australian rules football player)

* Matthew Pavlich plays for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A versatile player, Pavlich is widely regarded as one of the premier AFL centre half-forwards of the modern era, achieving All-Australian selection six times in the years between 2002 and 2008, twice representing Australia in the International Rules Series and representing the Dream Team in the 2008 Hall of Fame Tribute Match.

Pavlich has played his AFL entire career at Fremantle where he is a six time best and fairest winner, eight time leading goal kicker and was the club captain between 2007 and 2015. He is the first and only player from a Western Australian-based club to play over 300 AFL games. Born in South Australia, he made his AFL debut in 2000 and wears guernsey number 29.

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BIRTH DATA: Matthew Pavlich, 31 December 1981, 23:45 (11:45pm) ACDT (-10:30), Adelaide, SA, Australia (34s55, 138e35). ASC: 10 Virgo. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in Purple Heart by Matthew Pavlich (Pan Macmillan, 2015): "I was born on New Year's Eve 1981 at 11.45 pm... I was expected to be Adelaide's first New Year baby."

Saturday, 16 January 2016

Phyllis Coates (American film and television actress)

* Phyllis Coates is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952) in which she was given equal billing with George Reeves (insisted upon by Reeves), even for episodes in which she did not appear. Her powerful "damsel in distress" scream was used to good effect in several episodes.

Coates's Superman fame has obscured the fact that she was one of Hollywood's most consistently employed actresses of the 1950s and '60s. She freelanced steadily, appearing in numerous low-budget features, many of them Westerns, as well as serials and a steady stream of TV appearances, both as a regular in several series and as a guest cast member in others.

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BIRTH DATA: Martha Rose Stell, 15 January 1927, 03:30 (3:30am) CST (+6), Harrisburg, Harris, Texas, USA (29n43, 95w16). ASC: 00 Sagittarius. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate.

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Larry L. King, 1929–2012 (American playwright, journalist, and novelist)

* Larry L. King is best remembered for his 1978 Tony Award-nominated play The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which became a long-running production on Broadway and was later turned into a feature film starring Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning and Dolly Parton.

In 1974, he wrote an article about the Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas; after the article was published in Playboy, King and fellow Texan Peter Masterson developed it into the book of the Broadway musical.

King received an Emmy Award in 1982 for the CBS documentary The Best Little Statehouse in Texas.

King died on 20 December 2012, at a retirement home in Washington, D. C., survived by his third wife, five children, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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BIRTH DATA: Lawrence Leo King, 1 January 1929, 23:45 (11:45pm) CST (+6), Putnam, Callahan, Texas, USA (32n22, 99w11). ASC: 28 Virgo. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate.

Friday, 4 December 2015

Pimp C, 1973-2007 (American rapper, singer, and producer)

* Pimp C was best known for his work with best friend Bernard "Bun B" Freeman as a founding member of the Underground Kingz (UGK). Their third album, Ridin' Dirty, reached #2 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

n January 2002, Pimp C was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating his probation by ignoring his sentence to community service stemming from an earlier aggravated assault charge. While he was in prison, Rap-A-Lot Records released Sweet James Jones Stories in 2005, most of which consisted of unreleased freestyle recordings. Pimp C was released on 30 December 2005 and placed on parole until December 2007.

Pimp C was found dead in a hotel in West Hollywood, California, on 4 December 2007.

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BIRTH DATA: Chad Lamont Butler, 29 December 1973, 23:37 (11:37pm) CST (+6), Port Arthur, Texas, USA (29n53, 93w55). ASC: 28 Virgo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Sweet Jones: Pimp C's Trill Life Story by Julia Beverly (Shreveport Ave, 2015): "[In] Port Arthur ... At 11:37 PM that night, December 29, 1973, Chad Lamont Butler entered the world a month early."

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Steve 'Hizzy' Hislop, 1962–2003 (Scottish motorcycle racer)

* Steve Hislop won the Isle of Man TT eleven times, won the British 250cc Championship (1990) and won the British Superbike championship (1995 and 2002).

Hislop died when piloting his small, Robinson R44 helicopter on 30 July 2003. He was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Robert Steven Hislop, 11 January 1962, 19:55 (7:55 PM) GMT (+0), Hawick, Scotland (55n25, 2w47). ASC: 1 Virgo. RR: B (Biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Hizzy: The Autobiography of Steve Hislop by him and Stuart Barker (Willow, 2012): "I was born at 7.55pm on 11 January 1962 at the Haig Maternity Hospital in Hawick in the Scottish borders."

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Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Tippi Hedren (American actress, fashion model, animal rights activist)

* Tippi Hedren was one of Alfred Hitchcock's ice-cool blondes, making her film debut in his suspense thriller The Birds followed by the title role in his psychological thriller Marnie. Hedren claims that Hitchcock was a sexual predator and control freak, who subjected her (and the birds?) to cruelty on the set. He also tried to destroy her career. Hitchcock's Mars is conjunct Hedren's Moon and his Scorpio Jupiter is conjunct her MC.

Hedren rejected Hitchcock's advances and went on to enjoy a successful career, appearing in over eighty films and TV shows. She has the feisty comination of Mars and Saturn straddling her Ascendant; with her Saturn square Hitchcock's Mars and her Mars quincunx his Pluto. This synastry made for quite a standoff.

Hedren also founded the non-profit Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve, a sanctuary that houses some 70 animals. She is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith and grandmother of actress and model Dakota Johnson.

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BIRTH DATA: Nathalie Kay Hedren, 19 January 1930, 06:35 (6:35AM) CST (+6), New Ulm, Minnesota, USA (44n18, 94w27). ASC: 7 Capricorn. RR: AA (birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth certificate, obtained on 6/6/2015.

Friday, 3 April 2015

Peregrine White, 1620–1704 (First known English child born to the Pilgrims in America)

* In 1620, Peregrine White's parents, William White and his pregnant wife Susanna, with their son Resolved White and two servants came on the historic voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. Peregrine was born while the Mayflower lay at anchor in the harbour at Cape Cod. In later life he became a person of note in Plymouth Colony, active in both military and government affairs.

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BIRTH DATA: 19 November 1620 [OS], 06:00 (6 a.m.) LMT (+4:40:43), in the harbour of what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA (42n03, 70w10). ASC: about 15 Sagittarius. RR: AA (from quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites entries in family bible quoted in “Certain Comeoverers" (Vol. 1) by Henry Howl Crapo (London: Forgotten Books, 1912), pp. 49: "'Nov. ye 9th came to the harbour called Cape Cod Harbour in ye dauntless ship.' Under date of November 19, 1620, is this entry: 'Sonne born to Susanna White yt six o'clock in the morning.' The date of Peregrine White's birth as given by Bradford was December 10, 'new style.' And again 'Landed yt Plymouth Dec. ye 11th 1620.' The date, 'new style,' was December 21, since known as 'Forefathers' Day.'"

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Philip Levine, 1928–2015 (Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet)

* Philip Levine died last Saturday morning (14 February 2015). I cannot find a precise time of birth for him, yet the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet writes in his poem "Let Me Begin Again" that he was born at night. A speculative birth time of 9 p.m. puts poetic Neptune at the end of the 12th House on the Ascendant alongside the Moon just into the 1st House.

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BIRTH DATA: 10 January 1928, about 21:00 (9 PM) EST (+5), Detroit, Michigan, USA (42n20, 83w03). ASC: About 3 Virgo. RR: C (Rectified from approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield notes that in his poem "Let Me Begin Again" Levine infers that he was born at night: "1/10’28. Tonight I shall enter my life / after being at sea for ages, quietly, / in a hospital named for an automobile."

Note: He was born at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The time of 9pm is speculative.

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Louis Chevrolet, 1878–1941 (Swiss-American racecar driver, automotive engineer, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company)

* Louis Chevrolet revelled in automobiles. He turned from mechanic to racecar driver to automotive engine designer to co-founder of an international car company bearing his name. The namesake of the 'Chevy' had the highly-driven combination of Mars in the first degree of Sagittarius trine his Leo Ascendant.

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BIRTH DATA: Louis Joseph Chevrolet, 25 December 1878, 18:30 (6:30 pm) LMT (-0:29:44), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (47n06, 6e50). ASC: 1 Leo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Louis Chevrolet: der Mann, der dem Chevy seinen Namen gab : die Geschichte des Rennfahrers und Autopioniers -- 1878 bis 1941" by Martin Sinzig (Huber, 2011), p. 25: "Am 25. Dezember 1878, um sechseinhalb Uhr nachmittags, wird Louis Joseph Chevrolet an der Rue Du Grenier 22a in La Chaux-de-Fonds geboren."

Translation: "On 25 December 1878 at six-thirty after noon, Louis Joseph Chevrolet was born at 22a Rue Du Grenierin La Chaux-de-Fonds."

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Goldie Hill, 1933–2005 (American country music singer)

* Goldie Hill was one of the first women in country music, and became one of the first women to reach the top of the country music charts with her No. 1 1953 hit, "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes". Along with Kitty Wells, she helped set the standard for later women in country music. Hill might have had a longer career in country music had she been inclined to pursue it. She had a strong and twangy voice that can be heard in other country singers of the 1960s such as Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. With the success of Kitty Wells and her 1952 hit "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", Hill was able to pursue her own career after the profit potential of female singers was realized by record companies.

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Monday, 23 September 2013

Euel Box (American music producer, composer, arranger, and trumpeter)

* Euel Box has written major film scores and radio jingles for major markets. For the composition of "Benji," Box and his wife earned a 1975 nomination for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award for best song.

Mercury in Capricorn rules Box's Gemini Ascendant, indicating success as a writer/composer.

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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Clarence Swensen , 1917-2009 (American actor)

* Clarence Swensen was one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Swensen was not allowed to attend a public school until he was nine, because of his size. At 4ft 6ins, he played one of the 25 Munchkin soldiers in the 1939 film. He also appeared in The Terror of Tiny Town as a preacher. Many of his "Oz" co-stars were cast members of this Western musical film.

After suffering a stroke in 2005, he was unable to walk and ended up in a wheelchair as a result. He suffered from poor health then after but still attended many events with the other surviving Munchkins, including the presentation of the Munchkins' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Swensen died on February 25, 2009.

He had a Pluto Boomerang.

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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Bobbie Nelson (American pianist and singer)

* Bobbie Nelson is the sister of Willie Nelson. At age sixteen she married Bud Fletcher, who formed his own band, The Texans. She joined on the piano, while her brother joined on vocals and guitar. The band was dissembled in 1955 after she divorced Fletcher. In 1973 she joined Willie Nelson on the piano during his sessions with Atlantic Records, that produced The Troublemaker, Shotgun Willie, Phases and Stages and Red Headed Stranger. The same year she joined Willie's band, The Family, full time and began touring with her brother. In 2008, she released her solo debut album, Audiobiography.. Bobbie's Taurus Moon is conjunct Willie's Chiron and her Capricorn Saturn is conjunct his Ascendant (see his chart here). Good solid synastry for this sister-brother duo!

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

John Edward Robinson (American serial killer)

* John Edward Robinson was known as "Slavemaster" to some of the women he met on the Internet. A sexual deviate with a taste for sadomasochistic rituals of extreme domination and torture, Robinson has Pluto on his North Node ruling his Scorpio Ascendant. He was found guilty in 2003 of three murders and he has subsequently admitted responsibility for five additional homicides. Because he made contact with most of his post-1993 victims via on-line chat rooms, he is sometimes referred to as "the Internet's first serial killer."

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